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 GNU gzip NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
+* Noteworthy changes in release 1.5 (2012-06-17) [stable]
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+  gzip -d now decodes and checks header CRC16 checksums as specified by
+  the FHCRC section of Internet RFC 1952.
+
+  "gzip -d -S '' precious.gz" is now rejected immediately.  Before,
+  that command would emulate "rm -i precious.gz", but with an easily-
+  misunderstood prompt.  I.e., gzip would ask if it's ok to remove the
+  existing file, "precious.gz".  If you made the mistake of saying "yes",
+  it would remove that input file before attempting to uncompress it.
+
+  gzip -cdf now properly handles input consisting of gzip'd data followed
+  by uncompressed data.  Before it would output raw compressed input, too.
+  For example, now "(printf x|gzip; echo y)|gzip -dcf" prints "xy\n",
+  while before it would print "x<compressed data>y\n".
+
+  gzip -rf no longer compresses files more than once (e.g., replacing
+  FOO with FOO.gz.gz) on file systems such as ZFS where a readdir
+  loop that unlinks and creates files can revisit output files.
+
+
 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.4 (2010-01-20) [stable]
 
 ** Bug fixes
@@ -33,6 +56,8 @@ GNU gzip NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 1.3.13 (2009-09-30) [stable]
 
+** 'gzip -f foo.gz' now creates a file foo.gz.gz instead of complaining.
+
 ** Bug fixes
 
   gzip -d no longer fails with "-" as 2nd or subsequent argument
@@ -46,8 +71,6 @@ Major changes in Gzip 1.3.12 (2007-04-13)
 
 * znew now uses $TMPDIR (default /tmp) instead of always using /tmp.
 
-* 'gzip -f foo.gz' now creates a file foo.gz.gz instead of complaining.
-
 * It is now documented that gzip ignores case when examining file name
   extensions; for example, 'gzip test.Gz' (without -f) fails because
   the file name ends in '.Gz'.
@@ -383,7 +406,7 @@ Major changes form 0.5 to 0.6:
 
 ========================================================================
 
-Copyright (C) 1999, 2001-2002, 2006-2007, 2009-2010 Free Software Foundation,
+Copyright (C) 1999, 2001-2002, 2006-2007, 2009-2012 Free Software Foundation,
 Inc.
 Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly